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RAID (Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks)

A method of storing data on multiple hard drives, allowing the overlapping of I/O operations. Depending on the level of RAID, there are either fault-tolerant or performance advantages.

RAID 0

A RAID configuration that employs data striping but lacks redundancy because there is no parity information recorded. As a result, RAID 0 offers no fault tolerance, but it does offer increased performance.

See also [RAID 5]
RAID 1

A fault-tolerant method that uses disk mirroring to duplicate the information stored on a disk.

RAID 2

A fault-tolerant method that uses disk striping with error correction.

RAID 3

A fault-tolerant method that uses disk striping with a single disk for parity.

RAID 4

A fault-tolerant ...

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